Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 81 95
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +37
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.078% 0.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.75% 0.45% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £219
25th Percentile £538 £456 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% - +8.82%
75th Percentile £613 £469 £553
90th Percentile - - £570
England median daily rate £475 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £112.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +54.48% -5.84%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 268 224 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.64% 17.55% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 89 224
10th Percentile £162 £213 £143
25th Percentile £189 £278 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £415 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.73% -7.78% +29.03%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £593
90th Percentile £575 - £717
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 31 45
10th Percentile £13.00 £40.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.80 £52.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +160.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.50 £76.50
England median hourly rate £23.00 £58.49 £39.08
% change year-on-year -60.68% +49.68% +56.31%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the East of England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 2 £575 - 2
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow